Welcome to Pastor Solomon’s opus sermon on life!

His summary is that it’s all smoke.

After two personal encounters with God, being given more wisdom than another man before or since, he still was left with the harsh reality that he wasn’t wise enough to out live death and that certain things don’t come as a result of wisdom they are a GIFT from god.

Much of Solomon’s wisdom went to waste.  He was searching for the one thing he already had, a trust relationship with God.

Solomon also didn’t know how to enjoy the present moment.  He’s been given the superpower of wisdom but it lost it’s purpose.  Wisdom without purpose is poison.

In these first two chapters of Ecclesiastes Solomon gives us the first batch of results from his research.

Here’s some of what he researched for us:

Research (results)

The pursuit of wisdom (smoke)

Pleasure (smoke)

Building cities (smoke)

Money (smoke)

Power (smoke)

Sex (smoke)

Work (smoke)

Solomon recognized that in the end we all die.  Period.  No exemptions.

So he decides to preach a sermon about what gives life meaning.  And he says:

1. Enjoy your life.

2. Enjoy your work.

3. Be present.